Apple Computer Inc.

May 1, 1985|By Deanne Brandon

END OF THE LINE. January 1983: Lisa's debut. January 1984: The name of the $10,000 personal computer is changed to Macintosh XL. May 1985: Apple Computer Inc. says it will stop making the machine. Factors: High inventories, depressed profits, new technology. Replacement, available in September: A regular Macintosh with 512,000 characters of memory and a new 20-million character hard disk. Lisa: One of the first personal computers to incorporate such features as a mouse, a hand-held device for pointing to symbols on the screen; and windows, which allow different tasks to be displayed on different portions of the screen.